What Causes Brain Fog? What Helps This Scary Symptom?

[artluvr09]

I want to know what causes brain fog? Feeling disoriented, unreal, forgetfulness feeling. What are some ways that help you cure your brain fog? It is such a scary symptom. I have it most of my life. I have better days than others. today is one of the bad days. I just feel so foggy all day like im a walking zombie. I have felt dehydrated this morning so I had a couple bottles of water and a Gatorade and I had a ramen for lunch for the extra sodium. my ears feel full off and on, I am hot and cold at the same time. I have been feeling weird ever sinc ei woke up. I don't know if it has to do with waking up in the middle of the night with a nightmare but I got good sleep. I don't know. I want to know what helps you guys with brain fog. and what could cause it. I am going to see my rheumatologist soon so I will tell her some things to see if she knows anything about it.

[badhbt]

I agree it is a very scary symptom, one of my worst. The thinking about brain fog is that it has a lot to do with lack of blood flow. The biggest thing that has helped my brain fog was going gluten and dairy free. I just decided to try it and within 2 weeks I felt like a totally different person. Coincidence? I don't know yet. It was such an improvement that I am not going to eat gluten ever again....haha

[Hope]

I just wrote a whole post in reply and lost it! UGG!

Ok, what I said was... I agree with "Badht", going gluten free and dairy free helped quite a bit. More recently, I gave up peanut butter and it has made a world of difference. Also, if I eat a whole egg, by BP drops like a hot potato. I know this but once in a while I eat one anyway thinking I will get away with it. But I don't, it always drops. Now I can eat eggs baked into things like bread, etc. (gluten free bread of course), maybe because it's just a little egg at a time that I am consuming. Food sensitivities are not my only POTS triggers, but I can help control this area at least. The weather and hormones are also triggers, but I have less control over those. It seems like a weeding out process. Pay attention to what your body is telling you when you eat or do activities, take meds etc. Other people may not believe you with triggers or symptoms, but they don't have to live in your body =) I hope you find some relief.